IUCN Status: Vulnerable
EPBC Threat Rating: N/A
IUCN Claim: “The reasons for past declines of the Golden Bandicoot are predation by feral cats and red foxes’”
Bandicoots were last confirmed in the Nullarbor 10 years after foxes arrived (Wallach et al. 202X).
Foxes were not among predators of reintroduced bandicoots (Christensen & Burrows 1995; Blythman et al. 2020). Bandicoots were last confirmed in NSW 46 years before foxes arrived (Wallach et al. 202X).
There are no studies linking foxes to golden bandicoots. In
contradiction with the claim, the extirpation records from NSW predates
the fox arrival record.
Blythman, Mark, et al. “Translocation of golden bandicoots, Isoodon auratus barrowensis, from a fenced enclosure to unfenced managed land on Matuwa (formally Lorna Glen) in September 2015.” (2020)
Christensen, P., and N. Burrows. “Project desert dreaming: experimental reintroduction of mammals to the Gibson Desert, Western Australia.” Reintroduction Biology of Australian and New Zealand Fauna’.(Ed. M. Serena.) pp (1995): 199-207.
Fairfax, Dispersal of the introduced red fox (Vulpes vulpes) across Australia. Biol. Invasions 21, 1259-1268 (2019).
Wallach et al. 2023 In Submission